Jon Kessler

Lives and works in New York

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2008 Unlimited, Art Basel, Basel Jon Kessler, Reg Vardy Gallery, University of Sunderland, UK Jon Kessler, Louisiana Museum of Moderne Kunst, Copenhagen

2007 Galerie Hans Mayer, Dusseldorf Arndt and Partner, Berlin Jon Kessler, The Drawing Center, New York, NY

2006 The Place at 4 AM, Phoenix Kulturstiftung/Sammlung Falckenberg

2005 Hermes, Tokyo, Japan Jon Kessler, MOMA P.S. 1, Long Island City, NY

2004 Deitch Projects, New York, NY Hermes, Forum Gallery, Tokyo

2003 Hermes, Tokyo, Japan

2002 Hermes, Tokyo, Japan

1999 Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, NY

1997 Jon Kessler, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

1996 Jon Kessler, The Augustus Saint Gardens Memorial, Cornish, NH

1994 Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York Jon Kessler’s Asia, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover; Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz Jon Kessler, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg Jon Kessler, Puerto de Santander, Santander

1993 Jon Kessler, Kunstverein, Hamburg

1992 Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, NY Jon Kessler, Nanba City Hall, Osaka Jon Kessler, Spiral Garden, Tokyo

1991 Galerie Metropol, Vienna Jon Kessler, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA

1990 Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, NY Jon Kessler, Centre d'Art d'Ivry

1989 Galerie Crousel - Robelin, Paris Galerie Ursula Schurr, Stuttgart Luhring Augustine Hetzler Gallery, Santa Monica Multiples, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne

1988 Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne

1987 Luhring, Augustine & Hodes, New York, NY Jon Kessler, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX

1986 Jon Kessler, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Traveling to the Cincinnati Art Center, Cincinnati, OH

1985 Luhring, Augustine & Hodes, New York, NY

1984 Galleri Bellman, New York, NY

1983 Artist's Space, New York, NY White Columns, New York, NY

Group Exhibitions

2007 New York State of Mind, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin and Queens Museum Fit to Print, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY Ensemble, ICA, Philidelphia, PA Art Machines-Machine Art, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt; Museum Tinguely, Basel Miroir mon beau miroir, Maison Guerlain, Paris Paul Thek in the context of todayÕs contemporary art, ZKM, Karlsruhe Apocalypse Now, the Theater of War, CA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA Fortunate Objects, Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, Miami, FL

2006 Video-Rama, Clifford Gallery, Hamilton, NY The Expanded Eye, Kunsthaus Zurich The Golden Hour, Gigantic Art Space, NY Faster! Bigger! Better!, ZKM, Karlsruhe

2005 Overhead/Underfoot: The Topographical Perspective in Photography, Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY Dreaming of a More Better Future, Rheinberger Gallery, The Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH Light Art from Artificial Light, ZKM, Karlsruhe

2004 Future Noir, Gorney, Bravin Lee Gallery, New York, NY Sexy Beasts, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York, NY Yesterday Begins Tomorrow, Deste Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens Ambush, Van Brunt Gallery, New York, NY Floorplay, The Brooklyn College Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Emoticons, Guild and Greyshkul, New York, NY

2003 The Commodification of Buddha, Bronx Museum, New York, NY

2000 Superpredators, CRP Gallery, Brooklyn, NY American Bricolage, Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York, NY Do You Have Time, Liebman Magnin Gallery, New York, NY

1998 Kunst . . Arbeit, Sudwestdeutsche Landesbank, Stuttgart Group Show, Galerie Georg Kargl, Vienna Crossings, Kunsthalle, Vienna Group Show, Galleri K, Oslo

1997 Family Values, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg

1996 Everything That's Interesting Is New, Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece Exposure, Luhring Augustine, New York, NY Sites of Chinatown, Museum of Chinese in the Americas, New York, NY The Luminous Image, The Alternative Museum, New York, NY In Vivo, University Gallery, Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA Art At Home, Ideal Standard Life, Spiral Garden, Tokyo

1995 Micromegas, The American Center, Paris; Israel Museum, Jerusalem Altered States: American Art in the 90s, Forum for Contemporary Art, Saint Louis The Biennial in Nagoya: Artec '95, Nagoya City Art Museum It's Only Rock and Roll, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; Lakeview Museum of Arts & Sciences, Peoria (1996); Virginia Beach Center for the Arts, (1996); Tacoma Art Museum, (1996); Jacksonville Museum of Art, (1996); Bedford Gallery at the Regional Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA, (1997); Phoenix Art Museum, (1997); Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Cleveland,(1997); Lowe Art Museum, Miami, (1998); Milwaukee Art Museum, (1998) The Lyon Biennial, Lyon

1994 Don't Look Now, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY Zuge Zuge - The Railway in Contemporary Art, Stadtische Galerie, Goppingen Synesthesia: Sound and Vision in Contemporary Art, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX What's in Your Mind, Tekniska & Telemuseum, Stockholm

1993 Live in Your Head, Heligenkreuzerhof, Vienna Prospect 93, Kunstverein Frankfurt and Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt Zeitsprunge: Collection Rudolf und Ute Scharpff, Wilhelm-Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen The Young Americans, Galerie Sophia Ungers, Cologne The Nature of the Machine, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL The 21st Century, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel Max Protech, New York, NY SCAI The Bathhouse Opening Exhibition, SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo In Between, The Floating Gallery, Shibuya-ku

1992 Doubletake: Collective Memory & Current Art, Hayward Gallery, London; Kunsthalle Vienna Biennale of Sydney, Australia Drawn in the Nineties, traveling exhibition organized by ICI, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York; Fine Arts Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington; Illingworth Kerr Art Gallery, Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Canada, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, Alabama More Than One Photography, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Gifts & Acquisitions in Contex, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY 1968, Le Consortium, Dijon

1991 Metropolis, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin Gulliver's Travels, Galerie Sophia Ungers, Cologne Rope, Fernando Alcolea, Barcelona Devices, Josh Baer Gallery, New York Motion & Document - Sequence & Time: Eadweard Muybridge and Contemporary American Photography, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover; ICP Midtown, New York, (1992); Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, (1993); Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, (1993); International Museum of Photography, Rochester, (1993)

1990 Reorienting: Looking East, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow; Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London Status of Sculpture, ELAC, Lyon; Marseille; ICA, London; Musee d'Asselt, Asselt Le Desenchantement du Monde, Villa Arson, Nice Pulse 2, University Art Museum, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA Improbable Machines, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA Trains, Michael Klein Inc., New York, NY

1989 A Climate of Site, Galerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam Horn of Plenty, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Science/Technology/Abstraction, University Art Galleries, Wright State University, Dayton Architectures, Gallery Urban, Paris Strange Attractors: Signs of Chaos, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York Gober, Halley, Kessler, Wool; Four Artists From New York, Kunstverein Munchen Vom Kreige, Stadtmuseum Graz, Graz

1988 The Multiple Object, Rooseum, Malmo Saint Clair Cemin, Joel Fisher, Jon Kessler, Joel Otterson, Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York Light, Nicola Jacobs, London Art of the 1980's: Artists from the Eli Broad Family Foundation Collection, Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing The New Urban Landscape, The World Financial Center, New York American Baroque, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York NY Art Now, the Saatchi Collection, London

1987 Investigations, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA The New Romantic Landscape, Whitney Museum of American Art, Fairfield County, Stamford, CT

1986 Byron - Kessler, Galerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam Post Pop, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles Lumieres: Perception-Projection, Centre International d'Art Contemporain de Montreal New Trends/New Technique Advances in World Sculpture, Contemporary Sculpture Center, Tokyo; Contemporary Sculpture Center, Osaka; Art Hall in the Forest, Sapporo Aspects of Art, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore Contemporary Sculpture, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago End Game: Reference and Simulation, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston Forg, Gober, Hutte, Kessler, Kiecol, Koons, Meuser, Zobernig, Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne Nothing, Message to the public, 30-second computer animation, One Times Square, New York

1985 Situations, Willard Gallery, New York 1985 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Modern Machines, Recent Kinetic Sculpture, Whitney Museumat Philip Morris Between Science and Fiction, Biennial Internacional de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo Made in India, Museum of Modern Art, New York Galerie Crousel-Hussenot, Paris Out of the Ooo Cloud, Edith C. Blum Art Institute, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson

1984 International Survey of Recent Painting & Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, New York A Decade of New Art, Artist's Space, New York Dramatic Dimensions, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY Project Room, P.S.1 New York

1983 Science and Prophecy, White Columns, New York